Fresh Moves 2015

Fresh Moves is a dance festival held each year at Baycourt Theatre. Schools are invited to enter a group of 20-50 students to present a 5-7 minute dance. Although it is not a competition, there are a panel of experts who give us feedback on our dance. Anyone from years 5-8, with a great attitude, can join our Fresh Moves dance group at Te Puna School. 

The whole idea is for the students to create the dance themselves, from the concept, to the choreography, costumes, music and lighting. We have a series of workshops where we all work together creating and rehearsing. The senior students are given the opportunity to lead and make some of the final decisions throughout the process.

This year the theme was "Innovation" and our dance was about us all working together to be innovative. We received some awesome feedback about this and about our whole concept. The panel also really liked how we used a variety of shapes and levels in our choreography.